Thousands of Students Riot After Paterno Is Ousted

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People are more likely to riot over something lame like this then they are over attacks on their freedom or wealth. They let wall street and Washington walk all over them but don't dare interfere with their favorite passtime or there will be chaos in the streets. If people are going to riot at least do it for an important issue and not some stupid game.
 
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A grad student saw the act firsthand and did not go to the police. Why is he not being blamed for anything? Oh, right, because he's not the face of the program...

Because the DAs office is running alot of interfernce for the former grad student and the janitor who witnessed it. As far as why porbably 2 reasons they're the only eye witnesses they have and weren't the driving force behind the coverup.
 
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And he was a 27 year old that had played in the NFL, not a 20 year old. McQueary should have been fired along with Paterno. It is crazy that he is still on the football staff.

Yea by all means lets persecute the one person at Penn State who did anything before getting the facts.

But it will be a sacrifice that will show good results, next time anyone who is in his position and sees something will act....

or more likely walk way.
 
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This coach is absolutely vile and should be in jail. Place yourself in his shoes. You report this event to your supervisors (note you have eyewitness testimony to rape), and nothing happens. I would have been at a police station within a month if he wasn't immediately taken away.

"winningest coach in college football" What a joke. To even think that lets you get away with enabling a child molester for years is the height of arrogance. Those rioting and supporting him should be ashamed.
 
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Angry student: Was any consideration given as to how his would affect the football program?

Me: The football program? The football program?? Are you serious? A former assistant coach was just indicted for over 40 counts related to sexual assault on a child, your football coach was fired in disgrace, your athletic director has been indicted for perjury, and a current assistant coach will, I’m sure, soon be fired. And the crimes against humanity — against children — took place in the university’s athletic facilities. Do you think you will even have a football program when the full extent of this becomes known?

Do you even think you’re going to have a university?

The shame of Penn State - College Football - Salon.com
 
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When me and my wife heard about the riots we just assumed it was over what the top officials did to cover up this scandal, I was blown away when I found out it was in favor of that pediphile protector, the death threats to the witness were also from disgruntled fans of the pediphile protector. It is a sad day in America, when pediphiles and those who hide their crimes and protect them are the ones Americans want freed, I can almost hear the crowds calling for Barabbas's release, and death for the child victims, How dare they want justice for being abused!......what a mixed up world!
 
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Yea by all means lets persecute the one person at Penn State who did anything before getting the facts.

But it will be a sacrifice that will show good results, next time anyone who is in his position and sees something will act....

or more likely walk way.

Not sure what you are trying to say. But, according to his own testimony to the grand jury (I would hope those are facts), he witnessed a child being sexually assaulted and, rather than try to protect the child or immediately call 911, he left and went to his office. Once at his office, he called his father. Then, the next day he reported the sexual abuse to Joe Paterno. And there are questions about what exactly he reported to his superiors -- if he reported he saw a rape or if he just saw a child naked in the showers with Sandusky. You would think, after a time where nothing has really happened, he would at least have gone to the police and reported what he saw.

I find it hard to say that he is the one person who "did anything." Well, he did testify to a grand jury, almost a decade later, about what he saw.
 
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Not sure what you are trying to say. But, according to his own testimony to the grand jury (I would hope those are facts), he witnessed a child being sexually assaulted and, rather than try to protect the child or immediately call 911, he left and went to his office. Once at his office, he called his father. Then, the next day he reported the sexual abuse to Joe Paterno. And there are questions about what exactly he reported to his superiors -- if he reported he saw a rape or if he just saw a child naked in the showers with Sandusky. You would think, after a time where nothing has really happened, he would at least have gone to the police and reported what he saw.

I find it hard to say that he is the one person who "did anything." Well, he did testify to a grand jury, almost a decade later, about what he saw.
Yeah I'm not sure if its just a fact of life for men in these Catholic Institutions, that sex with boys is just a part of life or what? that there is no inclination to go into the shower and kick that pediphiles @$$, when he first saw what was going on, even if the kid seemed a willing participent, I can't even fathem walking away from that sort of scene, with out at the very least yelling "The cops are on the way!" Oh bless his cowardly heart for coming forward 9 years later to testify before the grand jury, If the day after the incident was reported I didn't see Sandusky being led away in cuffs, I would be re-reporting it to any and all officials that give a %$#@ about crimes against children, nomatter what it cost me. Anyone who post in any way shape or form in a positive angle for any of the people involved in this scandal needs to have their head examined.......or they are pediphiles themselves and hate to see one of their own losing everything for not standing up for innocent children
 
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Yeah I'm not sure if its just a fact of life for men in these Catholic Institutions, that sex with boys is just a part of life or what? that there is no inclination to go into the shower and kick that pediphiles @$$, when he first saw what was going on, even if the kid seemed a willing participent, I can't even fathem walking away from that sort of scene, with out at the very least yelling "The cops are on the way!" Oh bless his cowardly heart for coming forward 9 years later to testify before the grand jury, If the day after the incident was reported I didn't see Sandusky being led away in cuffs, I would be re-reporting it to any and all officials that give a %$#@ about crimes against children, nomatter what it cost me. Anyone who post in any way shape or form in a positive angle for any of the people involved in this scandal needs to have their head examined.......or they are pediphiles themselves and hate to see one of their own losing everything for not standing up for innocent children

I have to say, it is disgusting that he didn't report it the police straight away. I think that's what most people would do (amongst other things to stop it from happening). So it's weird that Paterno didn't.
 
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Good post. Who cares what will happen to the football program?! What about the child victims of sexual assault? How messed up are we when so many care about college football more then the innocence of a minor?

That is because the innocence of a minor doesn't make millions and millions of dollars annually.
 
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I have to say, it is disgusting that he didn't report it the police straight away. I think that's what most people would do (amongst other things to stop it from happening). So it's weird that Paterno didn't.

Except we really don't know what was said to Paterno. He has alluded to the fact that what was reported to him wasn't as serious as the allegations being leveled now against Sandusky.

20/20 hindsight is perfect. Of course Paterno would say he wished he had done more earlier, because now he's getting a fuller picture of what allegedly had been going on.

He never saw what happened. He reported what he was told to administrators at the University and for all he knew, they followed their chain of command, and did what they were supposed to.

As to the students who rioted...what idiots. These are the kids who are going to be leading the country when I'm old, and all they care about is a dumb game. I worry for this country.
 
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Yeah I'm not sure if its just a fact of life for men in these Catholic Institutions, that sex with boys is just a part of life or what? that there is no inclination to go into the shower and kick that pediphiles @$$, when he first saw what was going on, even if the kid seemed a willing participent, I can't even fathem walking away from that sort of scene, with out at the very least yelling "The cops are on the way!" Oh bless his cowardly heart for coming forward 9 years later to testify before the grand jury, If the day after the incident was reported I didn't see Sandusky being led away in cuffs, I would be re-reporting it to any and all officials that give a %$#@ about crimes against children, nomatter what it cost me. Anyone who post in any way shape or form in a positive angle for any of the people involved in this scandal needs to have their head examined.......or they are pediphiles themselves and hate to see one of their own losing everything for not standing up for innocent children

One quick point, Penn State is not a Catholic institution. Rather, it is a large public school (almost 96,000 students counting all campuses, 45,000 on the main campus) run by the state of Pennsylvania.
 
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Paterno reported it as soon as he heard about it. It was the Athletic Director who "kept silent."


Then if Paterno does not think he is guilty and accountable why did he lawyer up?
He even said he wished he had done more.

Would you work with someone you know raped little boys?

Paterno is as guilty as the rest of them............and when this hits the courts that will all come out.
 
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